Comments Thread For: Roach: Canelo First, Then Golovkin Next Year For Cotto

[SchoolTheseCats]

We need 4 or 5 fighters that will get it on like the hero's of yesteryear, Hearns Leonard Hagler Duran and a few more.

We have Cotto, Canelo, Mayweather and throw in a wild card, say GGG, he would be the Hagler. Mix them all up and who sticks his head up at the end is the best.

hahahahahahahahaha them chicken feathers will be all over the place, hahahahahahahahaha

Lol you never mention manny fighting any of those guys Floyd already schooled two of people you mentioned and now you #48 nuthuggers have flocked on the GGG bandwagon because that's last hope of seeing Floyd lose as #48 have came up short get a new hobby you pathetic ***tard

[GaryMSchneider]

If Miguel Cotto is victorious in Saturday night's defense of his WBC middleweight title against Daniel Geale at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the heavy talk regarding his next opponent has revolved around mandatory challenger Gennady "GGG" Golovkin and Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Cotto has already confirmed that there is a verbal agreement to fight Canelo Alvarez should he come out victorious Saturday night.

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First of all GGG is an absolute mandatory defence for the winner of Cotto/Geale. If Cotto fights Canelo before GGG then GGG would have to agree. And GGG would only agree if he gets a guarantee to fight the winner of Canelo/Cotto. Otherwise Cotto is going to have to give up his belt to sidestep GGG for Canelo. I see that happening because Cotto does not want to fight GGG. Then GGG will fight someone for the vacant belt. Then GGG will hold all middle weight belts. Then Canelo Alvarez will stall as long as he can before they fight GGG. However, GGG is a young 33 year old and still has at least three or four years in his prime.

[SonofZorro]

Screw Cotto

WTF? People are acting like Cotto rules boxing and makes these ****** demands. The Middleweight belt is boxing 2nd most prestigious belt next to heavyweight. Cotto has disgraced the 160lb belt. Now GGG is a true champion and should be only the 160lb champ. GGG is a true professional and a true champion and Cotto is a diluted convoluted infected brain damaged moron. Strip Cotto immediately and bring the prestige back to the 160lb belt. Cotto is a fricking fraud and a slow talking brain battered jerk

[North Star]

see i dont think so. i think even if geale pulls off a win that the cotto canelo fight still happens maybe not right away but within the year. if they are overlooking geal tho they are ****** as geale is a true big ass 160 pound fighter where as cotto is only there cause he has a belt but he is not a true middleweight. but then again it dont matter what roach thinks its just what cotto mindset is and i highly doubt he is overlooking anyone. i dont even think he overlooked trout i just think he was probably drained and it for sure was a terrible style matchup for him

With Trout, Diaz had him in Big Bear for training, then flew out to Florida weeks before the fight. This completely nullified the benefits of high altitude training, and going to sea level so early negatively affected Cotto's conditioning. It was a costly move and was some of the reason for why Diaz was dismissed after the loss. Diaz was trying to change Cotto into a Cuban point fighter and reinvent him into something he wasn't comfortable with.

[hitking]

that would be pretty much the most disappointing possible outcome of this whole mess.

Disappointing for who? GGG fanboys that wanna see their guy beat up smaller fighters?

[Craveman]

If Miguel Cotto is victorious in Saturday night's defense of his WBC middleweight title against Daniel Geale at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the heavy talk regarding his next opponent has revolved around mandatory challenger Gennady "GGG" Golovkin and Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Cotto has already confirmed that there is a verbal agreement to fight Canelo Alvarez should he come out victorious Saturday night.

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Basically easier fight first then the inevitable loss.

[Beater_of_ass]

WTF? People are acting like Cotto rules boxing and makes these ****** demands. The Middleweight belt is boxing 2nd most prestigious belt next to heavyweight. Cotto has disgraced the 160lb belt. Now GGG is a true champion and should be only the 160lb champ. GGG is a true professional and a true champion and Cotto is a diluted convoluted infected brain damaged moron. Strip Cotto immediately and bring the prestige back to the 160lb belt. Cotto is a fricking fraud and a slow talking brain battered jerk

[NEETzsche]

Disappointing for who? GGG fanboys that wanna see their guy beat up smaller fighters?

disappointing for anyone who values the integrity of the lineal championship and for anyone who wants to see good fights. mayweather has already beaten cotto; what's the point of seeing that again except for floyd to cherrypick a spurious new title for his collection? what needs to happen is for cotto and canelo to fight each other asap and then for the real middleweight champ, golovkin, to finally get a shot at unifying with the winner. cotto-canelo and canelo-golovkin are two of the best fights that can be made in the sport

mayweather should fight brook and thurman and ride off into the sunset. he doesn't need a fake middleweight belt, his legacy is already set

[Calibre .223]

Disappointing for who? GGG fanboys that wanna see their guy beat up smaller fighters?

Disappointing for fans who want to see "Lineal MIDDLEWEIGHT Champ" take on what many consider the true MIDDLEWEIGHT Champion. How does "smaller fighter" play into that equation, again?

[Mr.Daddy]

Plus Cotto can possibly find a way to avoid GGG entirely if that fight is pushed far enough back. I'd love to see it, but there is no way that Cotto is stepping into the ring with GGG.